Day 2 -Ellie
Ellie wakes up at 6am like usual. She gets up, puts on her robe, puts on her slippers and heads to kitchen, leaving behind a sleeping Pete.
She opens up the cupboards and gets started on breakfast for the whole family, like she usually does. She takes out boxes of cereal, pop tarts, orange juice and puts them all on the table. She then gets started on the scrambled eggs, the way Juan and Lita like to have them.
It's only when she's plating the eggs that she remembers that there are no kids in the house.
She stops, then, staring at the scrambled eggs for what feels like hours. Finally, she takes the eggs and throws them straight in the trash.
"Hey, hey, why are you throwing that away?" Pete's voice startles her.
She shakes her head. "I'm just going to have some cereal."
She sits down to eat as Pete gets started on his breakfast. She eats slowly, mostly to put some food into her system, because she's really not that hungry.
Pete tells her a few things but she's not really listening. Everything just seems to go over her head. She nods and shrugs here and there, but doesn't have the energy for more than that.
When she's done, she cleans everything up, putting things back in their place. She leaves the kitchen just as Pete sits down to eat his breakfast.
She goes back into her room and gets changed. Might as well try and resemble a human being today, she thinks to herself. Then she sits down and continues working on her design.
Pete comes in and out of the room a few times as he gets ready for work. He asks her about her design, about counter tops for the new house, whether she wants one color or another. She gives one-word replies. She really doesn't care.
When he's about to leave, he asks her if she wants to join him at the site today, but she shakes her head. She doesn't feel like joining him.
She doesn't feel like doing anything.